On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:34:04AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:06:42AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:49 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> > Why not put everything in a single git repository? >> >> That would require every packager to check out the entire package set, >> all revisions, all branches. No thanks. > >Jesse can probably estimate for us how large this will be. > >I've found that git deals very well with large repositories that have >lots of files and lots of history (kernel, qemu). And you only ever >have to download it once, since you can use "git fetch" to make local >working copies. A full git repo was 5.7G. I sure as hell don't want to pull that down when I'm only interested in a few packages. (The CVS repo is 16G on the server side if you are wondering.) josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
